Gatherer

Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It's main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.

The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap.

When you view your World Map, you will also see the item locations marked on the particular map you are viewing there.

INSTALLATION:
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Extract the data to your "World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns" directory so that the "Gatherer" directory is a subdirectory of the "AddOns" directory.

USAGE:
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Just use the game as normal.
When you gather things, they will appear on your minimap and your main map.
If you want to configure the addon, click the Gatherer configuration icon floating around your minimap frame or type /gather options.

4.0.2
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10554
- GATH-17: All user visible Strings should now be available for translation (with the exception of the slash command help)
- GATH-180: support all available Game locales, even if we don't have any translations yet
- GATH-132: Keybinding text is now set correctly (and avaiable for translation)
- GATH-179: node difficulties in tooltip only work in English

4.0.0
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10552
- GATH-167: WoW 5.0 Compatibility
+ GATH-168: MoP Ore/Herbs added. Treasure has not yet been considered, nor have non-English translations been added yet.
- GATH-169: Archaeology support is now completely custom from other Gathererables. Nodes are now only displayed on the Minimap, and only for a brief time after Survey is cast.

3.3.0
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10532
- GATH-160: Archaeology are now fully supported. Display is basic and will be expanded upon.
- GATH-163: Added difficulties for all known nodes.

3.2.4
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10522
- GATH-160 (In Progress): Archaeology nodes will now be recorded. Display is still under development.

3.2.3
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10514
- GATH-154: added remaining missing object name translations (though there are now a bunch of duplicates the need to be cleaned up)

3.2.2
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10513
- GATH-154: added most zhTW translations and cleaned up some in deDE

3.2.1
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10512
- GATH-154: added new nodes and updated translations (still a work in progress)
- GATH-158: fixed a bug where the report could error when trying to calculate the distance to nodes

3.2.0
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10159
- GATH-6: gatherer now records the indoor/outdoor status of nodes (this isn't visible yet)
- GATH-152: gatherer's database now only records a single node per location, even when multiple different types of (for example) minieral deposit spawn in the same place
- GATH-153: gatherer now correctly handles the new post-shattering world
- GATH-155: old world data (pre-shattering) has been wiped due to the massive changes to the world's geography

3.1.16
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10433
- GATH-121: Druid Flight Forms now count as a mount for the purposes of the HUD's "Hide while ..." options
- GATH-150: fixed that nodes were not displaying in the report view when no search string was entered
- GATH-149: HUD was using it's own icon set to display nodes, changed it to use the icons from Gatherer itself
- GATH-143: added a slash command to enable/disable all Gatherer plugins (ie. for the HUD use: /gather plugin hud toggle)

3.1.15
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10432
- GATH-68, GATH-148: support for WoW 4.X..Includes support for multi-profession tracking (ie. tracking Herbs and Ore at the same time).
- GATH-147: World Map note tooltips work once again
- GATH-139: Gatherer will no longer prevent the "World Map Ping" from being displayed

3.1.10
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10292
- GATH-102: Add Northrend areas to the Gatherer Report Search window
- GATH-106: adjust old statistics to bring them close to the "reality" for the WoW 3.0.8 mining changes
- GATH-105: support esMX locale by using esES object names as they are currently the same
- GATH-55: Display notice about gatherables window in confirm popup.
- GATH-100: Gatherer will no longer cause errors if SlideBar is not present
+ GATH-104: update object name translations for the new names of Northrend ores in WoW 3.0.8 (only enUS, zhTW and deDE locales have been updated)

3.1.9
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10272
- GATH-84: added Frost Lotus
- GATH-86: added Everfrost Chip
- GATH-83: added a LOT of new translations for game objects, still missing a few
- GATH-98: most Northrend items should stop showing up as red circles and now have an icon

3.1.8
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10262
- GATH-67: added support for Northrend Herbs and Ores. Still missing some non-English locales.

3.1.7
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10258
- GATH-81: Gatherer will no longer cause an error when SlideBar is not present
- GATH-82: the conversion process will no longer lose entire sections of the database due to a single (or small number) of nodes that couldn't be imported

3.1.3
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10232
= GATH-63: began work to make Gatherer compatible with WoW 3.0
- GATH-35: added new node density report window
- GATH-71: new set of node name translations, including the new ruRU game locale
- GATH-62: fixed a bug where the minimap display would not update when the current tracking spell was changed

3.1.2
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10222
- GATH-60: fixed a looting error that was popping up because of a gobal string change in WoW 2.4.2

3.1.1
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10212
- GATH-52: upgraded to Astrolabe rev 78 which fixes a bug that was causing an infinite loop whenever you changed continents without going through a loading screen

3.1
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Version Issue List: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10158
- GATH-51: updated Astrolabe to a version that handles the new zone added in WoW 2.4
- GATH-31, GHUD-5: implement a plugin system, and split the HUD into a plugin addon
- GATH-36: added an about section to the config window and made the Loaded message optional (off by default)

3.0.4
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Version Issue Lists: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10192
- updated the German localization for Mountain Silversage
- GATH-19: added a check to see if the icon who's texture is being updated has a valid distance (if not, it was improperly removed from Astrolabe)

3.0.3
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Version Issue Lists: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH/fixforversion/10157
- Gathers can now be announced to the chat frame seperate from being sent out to group/guild members
- Non-Circular Minimaps are now supported (Astrolabe rev 50)
- GHUD-4: The HUD now has a strata control option
- GHUD-2: HUD Node Maximum cooldown is now 4800 seconds, and added a "never cooldown" checkbox
- CNFG-5: Adds option for new profiles to be a copy of current profile

3.0.2
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- fixed the recording of nodes in Asian locales
- added more Spanish collection spell names
- added options for automatically hiding the HUD in specific situations, see HUD config for the full list of options

3.0.1
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- added some missing pre-defined icons
- fixed a bug that was causing some node names to show up incorrectly
- hopefully fixed recording of nodes for all locales now
- added some new node skill level requirements

3.0
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Gatherer has been massively restructured and re-written for version 3.0.
- Almost all icons have been re-done
- There is a completely new Report UI and Setting Dialog
- Gatherer now has the ability to share nodes between Party/Raid and Guild members as you gather
- You can now send sets of saved nodes to other players who are running Gatherer using the Report UI
- Localization is now done using Localizer (http://www.norganna.org/localizer/)
- Node names are now exact and generated from WoW Watcher data (http://www.wowwatcher.com/)
- Added an optional HUD display for nodes that are currently shown in the Minimap

This error happens every time I loot a gathering node for the first time after logging to one of my toons. Once it happened it no longer happens on that char, but as soon as I relog it pops up again - whether it's the same toon or another one.

Anyone else getting an error like this or do I have a major conflict somewhere?
Ordinarily I wouldn't post a question like this, but I'm getting a critical error that causes the game to crash
after I open my world map multiple times. The error goes away if I delete my Gatherer.lua in the main SavedVariables for my account but then I lose all my node data.

Right now my HUD seems to stay on during pet battles (if I'm out gathering, I usually check wild pets for rares). Is there any chance pet battles could fall under the 'Hide while in combat' option? Or perhaps its own hide option?

Is there a way you could add Wild pet tracking to gatherer? That way each time we either click or fight a wild pet it would put a note marker on the map in the same way it does with the other tractable's.

TL;DR - Instanced starting zones are not supported and support is not planned.

(I am open to changing my mind if someone presents a good argument.)

Well, I agree that your reasoning is sound on why it's not really imperative to include those zones, but it would perhaps be good to have the addon at least spit out a "ignoring node in starting zone" when you have "show log messages" turned on ;-) Or is that more work than necessary, too?

(I just mean so that it's at least somewhat obvious that these are purposely being ignored/not recorded)

Is there a way you could add Wild pet tracking to gatherer? That way each time we either click or fight a wild pet it would put a note marker on the map in the same way it does with the other tractable's.

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